Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Official legislative journal of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the colony's first representative assembly, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and published in Richmond by the Virginia State Library for lawmakers and historians. The pictures show the colonial arms of Virginia repeated across the pages: a cross of St George over shields, flanked by two armoured figures holding spears, with the motto VIRGINIA and a scroll reading NDAT QUARTA beneath. A designer might take the heraldic symmetry and the framed, emblem-style layout as a model for seals and crests.
